Dec. 29 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
The High Tech High Learning Network of charter schools will open a high school and a middle school in a building at the former Naval Training Center in Point Loma, across the street from the original High Tech High.

The new High Tech High Media Arts, High Tech Middle Media Arts and Explorer each will open there in the 2005-06 academic year. Explorer Elementary, a La Jolla charter school, will relocate to the building as well. The High Tech organization and Explorer, both recognized for academic innovation and achievement, plan to share some administrative and educational functions, and might establish additional schools together along their similar educational models, school officials said.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., 11:00 a.m. Dec. 26 (AP)
'Grab-and-go' food cart gets more students eating breakfast: It's not just OK for students to eat on the run when they arrive at a middle school here each morning. It's encouraged.

WASHINGTON,, 5:00 a.m. Dec. 27 (REUTERS)
Young teachers make a difference in tough U.S. schools: As a student at New York University, Ruth Zemel dreamed of finding a job that would enable her to change the world.

NEW ORLEANS, 10:48 a.m. Dec. 26 (AP)
Wanted: Small-town students who want to be country docs: Wanted: small-town students who want to become country doctors. Tulane University is mounting an effort to bring more doctors to underserved rural Louisiana.

Dec. 23 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Two High Tech schools, charter campus to share NTC site: The High Tech High Learning Network of charter schools will open a high school and a middle school in a building at the former Naval Training Center in Point Loma, across the street from the original High Tech High.

8:57 a.m. Dec. 25 (AP)
Latest academic freedom fight: conservative students vs. liberal profs: At the University of North Carolina, three incoming freshmen sue over a reading assignment they say offends their Christian beliefs.

CORONADO, Dec. 26 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Coronado board adds lockers to high school: Coronado's school board has decided to keep an old icon in its new high school.

JULIAN, Dec. 23 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Class gives students cooking, nutrition know-how: Whipping up a batch of sanbusak for 225 people is just another assignment for Susan Baren's students.

VISTA, Dec. 24 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Vista Unified study shows school district jobs lagging in pay: Wages for 36 of 44 school district job categories that support teachers in the classroom fall below the median in nearby cities, according to a Vista Unified study.

OCEANSIDE, Dec. 24 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
MiraCosta names new fund director: Linda Fogerson has been named executive director of fund development and the college foundation at MiraCosta College. She takes over her new post Jan. 18.

ENCINITAS, Dec. 23 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Extra revenue for Encinitas schools?: Soaring property values in the Encinitas Union School District could mean a cash windfall for schools.

Dec. 22 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Most colleges to offer intersession classes: Henry Snowden usually spends the holiday break earning money for college and visiting family. But come next month, he'll be hitting the books harder than ever in a Mesa College microeconomics course that will squeeze 16 weeks of instruction into four weeks.

JULIAN, Dec. 22 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Class gives students cooking, nutrition know-how: Whipping up a batch of sanbusak for 225 people is just another assignment for Susan Baren's students.

DEL MAR, Dec. 22 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Retired educators reunite at monthly lunches: Camaraderie among co-workers doesn't have to end after retirement.

Dec. 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Nativity scene is a family tradition: Mimma Fonti's menagerie of miniature farm animals, wooden houses and desert nomads all have their place in her very own Bethlehem, an elaborate Nativity scene she builds every year with the help of her daughter and 6-year-old granddaughter.

Dec. 19 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Unions' petitions urge Bersin's ouster: Rallying around the slogan of "taking back public education," two school district employee unions last week submitted what they said were 40,000 signatures to urge trustees to remove Superintendent Alan Bersin and end his "authoritarian rule."

EL CAJON, Dec. 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Funds sought to send wheelchairs to Mideast: Although many of them have heard about the violence in the Mideast only in class and on the news, some El Cajon Valley High School students are helping raise funds to buy wheelchairs for children hurt in the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

RANCHO PENASQUITOS, Dec. 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
School news team keeps kids in the know: What goes on in the teachers' lounge behind closed doors? Inquiring young minds want to know, and a news team from Park Village Elementary School has set out to answer the question.

CARMEL VALLEY, Dec. 18 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Giving the gift of computers: Mexican immigrant Maria Donoe lives in an apartment with five young brothers and sisters and no computer.

Dec. 16 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Schools to reduce honors courses: In an age of ultracompetitive college admission, the San Diego school district will remove the honors designation from a range of high school courses that are not rigorous enough to meet UC standards.

ESCONDIDO, Dec. 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
100 Escondido students to get bicycles as gifts: One hundred children will choose from rows of new $200 bicycles tomorrow and each child will take one home for Christmas.

RAMONA, Dec. 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Ramona trustee to lead school boards: Trustee Luan Rivera of the Ramona school district is president-elect of the California School Boards Association.

RAMONA, Dec. 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Ramona trustee to lead school boards association: Trustee Luan Rivera of the Ramona school district is president-elect of the California School Boards Association.

RANCHO BERNARDO, Dec. 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
Writers explore Gen. MacArthur's romantic side: Many people know about Gen. Douglas MacArthur's leadership in Japan after World War II, when he helped guide the country toward democracy.

CARMEL VALLEY, Dec. 17 (UNION-TRIBUNE)
New students find support from PALs: High school senior Sean Perry remembers what it was like to be a freshman.